I Spent Eight Years Spoofing Silver I'm a precious metals trader at a major bank. Was. Am. Depends on which LinkedIn I'm updating. Between 2008 and 2016, my desk placed orders we never intended to fill. Thousands of them. Tens of thousands. We'd flood the book with sell orders. Watch the algos panic. Cancel before execution. Buy at the bottom we just created. Rinse. Repeat. For eight years. ...